Talk:Max Vernon (police officer)

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Did you know... that police negotiator Max Vernon told the actor portraying him in 6 Days that "you've been wrongly cast. You're two inches shorter than me and I have more hair"?

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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 07:05, 18 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that police negotiator Max Vernon told the actor portraying him in 6 Days "you've been wrongly cast. You're two inches shorter than me and I have more hair"? "Vernon was played by the actor Mark Strong in a 2017 film about the siege, 6 Days. When the two met he looked at Strong and told him: 'You've been wrongly cast. You're two inches shorter than me and I have more hair.'" from: "Max Vernon obituary". The Times. 19 February 2021. Retrieved 14 August 2021.
- ALT1:... that chief negotiator Max Vernon thought he was close to a peaceful resolution of the Iranian Embassy siege before a hostage angered the gunmen? "He believed he came close to persuading Salim to surrender, but from the outset one of the captured Iranian diplomats, Abbas Lavasani, the press attaché, 'wanted to be a martyr, and he upset [the gunmen] every day. He scrawled insults on the wall and called them every name under the sun'. On day six the terrorists shot Lavasani and dumped his body outside. At that point "we knew it was all over and the SAS were going in", Vernon said." from: "Max Vernon obituary". The Times. 19 February 2021. Retrieved 14 August 2021.

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Piers Shonks

Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 07:25, 16 August 2021 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Article is new enough, long enough and is well sourced enough. The hooks are interesting, assuming good faith on ALT0 because the source is paywalled. Earwig is not picking up any copyvio and qpq has been provided. BuySomeApples (talk) 00:03, 18 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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